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the authorities by retiring for a time to obscure hiding-places 

 amongst the hills and surrounding moorlands, where they were 

 supplied with the necessaries of life by friends cognizant of their 

 hiding-places, {a) 



(a) The following are the names of those belongmg to Rossendale and the 

 immediate vicinity charged with being concerned in the Riots: — 



From Musbury.— James Shorrock, Mary Hindle, .and Thomas Emmet, 

 found guilty. 



From Lower Booths.— Thomas Ashworth, found guilty. Against Alice and 

 Peggy Lord there was no bill. 



From Haslingden.— Alexander Norris, John Orrell, Margaret Yates, Mary 

 Marsden, and Ann Entwistle, found ^/%. Betty Haworth, William Taylor 

 and William Almond, acqidtted. 



From DeardenClough.— Anthony Harrison, acquitted. 



From Tottington Higher End.— Aaron Gregson, acqtii/ted. 



In the encounter between the Military and Rioters at Chatterton, the 

 following persons were either killed on the spot, or died shortly afterwards:— 



Richard Lund, by trade a blacksmith, but who kept a small shop at 

 Haslingden ; shot through the belly. 



James Rothwell, a weaver at Haslingden ; through the breast. 



James Ashworth, a weaver at Haslingden ; through the body. 



James Lord, a fulling-miller at Newchurch ; through the body and head. 



James Whatacre, dresser for Messrs. Rostrons' power-looms ; through the 

 body. 



Mary Simpson, the wife of Simpson, a weaver at Haslingden ; through 



the left thigh. 



Three of these left families ; and one of them— Whatacre— was not engaged 

 in the riot, but unfortunately had got amongst the mob. The female, it is 

 supposed, had bled to death for want of assistance. Of the number wounded 

 nothing certain could be ascertained, as they were carried away by their 

 friends. 



Judgment of death was recorded against the rioters to the number of 

 forty-two, including seven females. The jury, however, having recommended 

 them to mercy, the capital sentence was not carried into effect. 



The following is from the Liverpool Mercury of September ist, 1826:— 



Proceedings against the County.— The actions brought against the 

 different Hundreds of the County, to recover compensation for the damages 

 sustained by breaking power looms, during the disturbances in the month of 

 April last, were twenty-three in number, two of which— namely, one by 

 Messrs. Walmesleys of Oswaldtwistle, and one by David Ashworth, of 



